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POLICY BULLETIN
November 3, 2009
How much is $12.8 billion? This amount is equivalent to total state General Funds spending for the State
Board of Education and the departments of Human Services, Children and Family Services, and Public
Health. The entire General Funds budget — aside from mandatory spending for pension costs, debt
service, and other statutory transfers — is about $26 billion. Closing a $12.8 billion gap without new rev-
enue would require devastating spending cuts, on top of those enacted this year. If such reductions were
applied across the board, they would slash 50 percent of funding from every state program; if not distrib-
uted equally, many specific cuts would run far deeper.
Total 12,827
Note: Estimate assumes all other revenue and spending at FY 2010 levels.